On y® 17^^ May the Mutes were Executed the rest repreived untill their Majtys pleasure were known on ye Q^h of Aprill his Excell^y mett the assembly who Chose their Speaker and did agree wt^ his ExcelP^ in many things for their Majtys service the Laws made are now transmitted to M'" Blaithwaite for their Majtys aprobatione The assembly did then adress their Majtys wh the State of this pro-j^ince w^h w^e have now farther presumed to doe, in a more pticular manner, & humbly beg y'" Ldships favour therein, there being nothing requested but According to the best of our Experience & understandings, is of absolute

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necessity for their Majtys dignity and advantage and the security of their subjects here, all w^h is humbly submitted unto j^ Ldshps, liis Excell'^y had no sooner settle affairs here but he went to x4.1bany witli scv^i Genthnen of the Councill, where he met the Indians and notwithstanding of the strong endeavors of the french hath so fixed them, that we have cause to believe they will prove constant to us, the french are very active, his Excell^y viewed Schenectidy y« half moon & Sev" o^ out places where he found them in a sad and miserable condition occasioned by the Late troubles and the french who had desended vpon them burnt Schenectidy Si. had killed & taktn sev^i Inhabitants he has guarisoned Schenectity & the half moon, and upon the reports he heard of recruits arrived in Cannada, and of 900 Cannoes making at Montroyall with dessign to Come & take Albany he fitted out 130 Christians and 300 Maquas & river Indians imder y« Command of Major Schyler who went into Canada on y^ 25 th past and were to meet thereabout 500 Senequas who promised to go down Cadaraqua river unto them we hope they may doe some service or at Lest devert their Invasion untill we bee in a beter posture of defence having wrote sev^i Letters to the neighbouring Colonys for their assistance Connecticut Rhod Island & y^ Massachusetsflattly deny us and will not afford us relief we Expect better from Virginia & Maryland -- there being an absolute necessity of guarisoning Albany w^h at lest 500 men for this province as now Limitted impossible to raise or mantain y™ yet that Post of so great Import, that if it be not preserved, will endanger the loss of all their Majtys Collonys on this Continent being the only defence & security of them all, we therfore pray yourLordshps to Consider the present state of this province who has groaned under unsiportable pressures ever since that unhappy union with bosten in the late reign the governm' then being so large an extent and the means of Conveying Intelligence so difcult & tedious that on end of the dominion might have been destroyed before the other could have notice of it, besides they have so since so poysoned thos western parts with their seditious and antimonarchical principles who formerly were all signall for their good affection to the monarchy that all the Miseries that has since attended this province is only to be attributed